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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Rutzen has worked on the legal framework for civil society, digital rights, and public participation in 100 countries.

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Maybe nonprofit governance aint what it needs to be?

Philanthropy 2173

I want to think about what it means - if anything - for civil society. First, it seems that no one in civil society or the U.S. Second, the OpenAI events show that the nonprofit governance model is not "strong" enough to outweigh the interests of investors. See Timnit Gebru and Émile Torres on TESCREAL.

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Digital Public Policy: New Priorities for Nonprofits

Philanthropy 2173

It is derived from lessons learned preparing the Integrated Advocacy report and this article on media coverage of civil society and covid. Just as digital practices and public policy shape online expression and assembly, civil society also shape digital practices and policies. They are entwined with each other.

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Insurance in a Climate-Changed World

NonProfit Quarterly

The first place that most of us will experience the direct costs of climate change is in the insurance market, and the problem has already emerged. Scientists are studying these changes; meanwhile, insurers are leaving the market. Pressures on Civil Society Financial experts warn of cascading impacts.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

On the market side, many companies have come to understand the existential threat that climate change represents. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. Dialing In on Procurement.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral. The cooperative’s goal was to rehabilitate landless refugees and increase access to markets. Its scale was vast, with nearly 142,928 acres of state land allocated to 132 Cooperative Farming Societies.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. The students devised and implemented a plan to market and sell their honey production.